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jQuery hover animation queue

Having some trouble fully understanding how animations in jQuery are queued and initialized. Trying to get more comfortable with the concept by writing some button effects.
I want to turn the code from the pen below into a smooth animation (as you can see if you hover over the button multiple times you run into some issues) that executes each animation on hover in ONLY when there is not another animation going on, and then execute hover out animations ONLY when the hover in animation finishes.
Here is my code: http://jsbin.com/larukayi/1/edit
Thanks in advance for any help!

I think below changes give you the expected result:
button1.css("cursor", "pointer").hover(
function(){
slideup.stop(true).animate({
"bottom":"0px"
}, 150, 'linear');
slideup.delay(100).animate({
"left":"50px"
},150,'linear');
slideright.delay(550).animate({
"left":"0px"
}, 100, 'swing');
},
function(){
slideright.stop(true).animate({
"left":"-50px"
},150,'linear');
slideup.delay(100).animate({
"left":"0px"
}, 150, 'linear');
slideup.delay(100).animate({
"bottom":"-100px"
},150,'linear');
});

jQuery animation code only running first instruction?

I'm fairly certain I'm being massively stupid here, but how can I run multiple jQuery animation instructions one after the other. The code below causes my box to move away from the left hand side correctly, but does not cause it to expand down.
click : function(){
$(this).not(".break").animate({left: '100%'}, 300);
$(this).slideDown(300);
},

You can split them into two:
$(this).not(".break").animate({left: '100%'}, 300);
$(this).children().slideDown(300).hide();

Make Image Grow Larger On Press And Toggle

On a website, I have a list of news articles mentioning a certain thing. I want the articles to be able to be pressed, and when they are, the image source will switch with the image source of the actual article, and the image will grow to an arbitrary size. When you click the image again, it should go back to normal. I also want it to set itself to be absolutely positioned or something that way it doesn't push elements out of its way when it grows.
I guess my first question would be, is there already a code snippet or easy implementation of this or something similar? I have not been able to find one.
Second, I am in the process of making my own, and for whatever reason, when the page loads, every image just fades to disappearing without anything being pressed. Here is my code so far...
$(".newsCover").toggle(function () {
$(this).animate({
width: "auto",
height: "1000px"
}, 1500);
}, function () {
$(this).animate({
width: "auto",
height: "300px"
}, 1500);
});
Can anyone tell me what is wrong with it and how to fix it? I have a feeling its just something really stupid...
Thanks so much!

The .animate() method allows us to create animation effects on any
numeric CSS property.
All animated properties should be animated to a single numeric value, except as noted below;
http://api.jquery.com/animate/
However, you can hack it by determining the auto height/width as a hard number:
JavaScript jQuery Animate to Auto Height

The toggle function that you are using was deprecated in 1.8, and removed in 1.9, see here: http://api.jquery.com/toggle-event/ In v 1.9+, the toggle function now simply hides the element.
With no parameters, the .toggle() method simply toggles the visibility
of elements
The parameters that can be passed to the new toggle function can be found here: http://api.jquery.com/toggle/ With the new toggle function, you are unable to run the .animate() function within it. To achieve what you're trying to do, you could do something like:
$(".newsCover").click(function() {
if($(this).height() > 300) {
$(this).animate({
width: "auto",
height: "1000px"
}, 1500);
}
else {
$(this).animate({
width: "auto",
height: "300px"
}, 1500);
}
});

animate christmas ornaments with Jquery ui effects

hi i am playing with jquery ui effects and trying to animate some christmas ornaments. the idea is that they would swing if you hover over them. and swing from the midpoint of the top of the image (the top of the string) like a real ornament and not just the whole image moving back and forth.
what i have so far is here:
http://jsfiddle.net/9ceeW/
its displaying on click, when i do it on hover they dont work as well or realistically.
this is my first foray into jquery animation and i am not really sure how to proceed next. any help would really be appreciated.
thanks!

You can use the plugin from
http://www.zachstronaut.com/posts/2009/02/17/animate-css-transforms-firefox-webkit.html
add a custom animation queue as in A non-nested animation sequence in jQuery?
and you end up with animated christmas balls at http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/9ceeW/8/
update
updated to allow multiple balls to animate at the same time.. http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/9ceeW/9/

Check out the jQuery Path plugin for animating elements along curves. See the author's demo page.

Not really my thing, but you need to add something like this:
$('#ball1').click(function () {
$(this).effect("bounce", { direction:'left', times:1, distance:60 }, 500);
$(this).effect("bounce", { direction:'left', times:1, distance:30 }, 750);
$(this).effect("bounce", { direction:'left', times:1, distance:15 }, 1000);
$(this).effect("bounce", { direction:'left', times:1, distance:5 }, 1250);
});
Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/N7qM9/

jQuery animate problems

I use the following snippet to make an element's background lightblue, then slowly fade to whiite over 30 seconds:
$("#" + post.Id).css("background-color", "lightblue")
.animate({ backgroundColor: "white" }, 30000);
Two questions.
First, instead of fading to white, is there a way to fade opacity to 100%? That way I don't have to change "white" if I choose to change the page's background color?
Second, about once out of every 10 or 15 times, the background stays lightblue and fails to fade to white. I'm using the latest versions of jQuery and the UI core. What could be going wrong?
EDIT: Bounty is for a solution to problem regarding second question.
EDIT2:
Apparently I got downvoted into oblivion because I said I rolled my own solution but didn't show it. My bad. I didn't want to be self-promoting. My code works 100% of the time and doesn't require jQuery. A demonstration and the code can be found at:
http://prettycode.org/2009/07/30/fade-background-color-in-javascript/

For your second question: in my experience this is usually because a Javascript error has occurred somewhere else on the page. Once there is one Javascript exception, the rest of the page stops running Javascript. Try installing Firebug (if you haven't already), then open up the "Console" tab and enable it. Then any javascript errors or exceptions will be printed to the console.
Another thing to try (which kinda contradicts my last statement...) is to disable all your browser plug-ins to see if you can recreate. Sometimes they interfere with scripts on the page (particularly GreaseMonkey.)
If you could provide a sample HTML snippet which reproduces this animation problem it would be a lot easier for us to help you. In the script I have pasted below, I can click it all day, as fast or slow as I like, and it never fails to animate for me.
For the first question: I know you said you'd found a workaround, but the following works for me (even on IE6) so I thought I'd post it, since it may be different from what you were thinking. (Note that setting CSS "opacity" property through jQuery.css() works on IE, whereas IE does not support the "opacity" property directly in CSS.)
<html>
<head>
<style>
body { background-color: #08f; }
#test { background-color: white; width: 100px; }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
var myOpacity = 0.125;
$(function(){
$('#test').css('opacity', myOpacity);
$('a').click(function(){
myOpacity = 1.0 - myOpacity;
$('#test').animate({ opacity: myOpacity });
return false;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click me</p>
<div id="test">Test</div>
</body></html>

Dont forget the color plugin.
See here
When the color fails to animate to blue you could try to use the callback function to log a message to the console. You can then check that the event actually fired and completed. If it does then you could potentially use two animates. The first one to animate to a halfway house color then the use the callback to animate to white (so you get two bites of the cherry, if the outer fails but completes the callback has a second go)
It would be good if you could try to recreate the issue or give a url of the issue itself.
e.g
$("#" + post.Id).css("background-color", "lightblue")
.animate({ backgroundColor: "#C0D9D9" }, 15000, function(){
$(this).animate({ backgroundColor: "#ffffff" }, 15000)
});

You could always use something like this, avoiding the JQuery animate method entirely.
setTimeout(function() { UpdateBackgroundColor(); }, 10);
UpdateBackgroundColor() {
// Get the element.
// Check it's current background color.
// Move it one step closer to desired goal.
if (!done) {
setTimeout(UpdateBackgroundColor, 10);
}
}
Also, you may be able to remove the "white" coding by reading the background color from the appropriate item (which may involve walking up the tree).

It is possible to have jQuery change the Opacity CSS property of an item (as mentioned in another answer), but there's two reasons why that wouldn't work for your scenario. Firstly, making something "100% opaque" is fully visible. If the item didn't have any other modifications to its opacity, the default opacity is 100%, and there would be no change, so I'm guessing you meant fading to 0% opacity, which would be disappearing. This would get rid of the light blue background, but also the text on top of it, which I don't think was your intent.
A potentially easy fix for your situation is to change the color word "white" to "transparent" in your original code listing. The color plugin may not recognize that color word (haven't checked documentation on that yet), but setting the background color to "transparent" will let whatever color behind it (page background, if nothing else) shine through, and will self-update if you change your page background.

I'll answer your first question.
You can animate opacity like this:
.animate({opacity: 1.0}, 3000)
I think you can try using fadeOut/fadeIn too..

What about:
$("#" + post.Id).fadeIn( "slow" );

You could possibly have two divs that occupy the same space (using position: absolute; and position: relative; setting the z-index on one higher to make sure one is above and the other is below. the top one would have a transparent background and the one below would have a background color. then just fadeout the one below.

As for the second question:
If you think the default animation classes from JQuery are not properly working you could try Bernie's Better Animation Class. I have some good experiences with that library.

Animate only works for numbers. See the jquery docs. You can do opacity but you can't do background color. You can use the color plug in. Background-color uses strings like 'red', 'blue', '#493054' etc... which are not numbers.